Deputies look for fast-food robber

Howard Roden

Published
6:14 pm CDT, Monday, March 21, 2011

SOUTH COUNTY - Montgomery County Sheriff’s deputies were searching for a man who robbed a fast-food restaurant on Sawdust Road Monday night.

The man entered the Taco Bell at 650 Sawdust at approximately 9 p.m., waving a gun at both customers and employees, according to information received from witnesses at the scene, Montgomery County Sheriff’s Office dispatch said.

No shots were not fired, nor was anyone injured, MCSO dispatch confirmed.

It was not known how much cash, if any, was taken from the restaurant.

Information received by the Sheriff’s Office identified the robber as a black male, dressed in dark clothing and wearing a black ski mask.

The man was said to have left the scene in a dark blue Chevrolet Impala, headed for Grogan’s Mill Road.

A Taco Bell employee who answered the phone declined comment, referring all questions to the company’s corporate headquarters.

It was approximately 10:30 a.m. that MCSO dispatch received a call of an aggravated robbery in the 400 block of Porter Road in East County. A man wearing a blue bandana across his face left the store with an undisclosed amount of money after showing a handgun.